Brand Manager Jobs in Champaign, IL

Job Description

PURPOSE: Marketing, Brand Management, & Sales - Paid Training - Travel Opportunities - Management


MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY AREAS

• Implementation of marketing & campaign plans, including product positioning, campaign development strategies, and market strategy insights.
• Discovery of strategic business opportunities through cross function collaboration with sales, HR, etc. 
• Marketing opportunity for revenue
• Provide product/service support in order to establish proper channels of information and communication. 
• Responsible for branding, advertising, trade shows, company events and promotional collateral
• Work with management on projects dealing with media relations, business communications, success stories

CORE COMPETENCIES:
These are personal traits that will best help the associate to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• Judgement and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. 
• Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. 
• Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. 
• Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. 
• Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. 
• Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. 
• Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. 
• Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. 
• Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-nature, cooperative attitude.
• Candidate must be very articulate, have a sense of humor, easygoing, but very disciplined. We need a culture fit! 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising or Journalism 
• Minimum (0) zero to (5) five years of relevant experience in marketing management with proven success, however we offer paid training 
• Must have wide range of experience and understanding of the marketing including product positioning, pricing, promotions, market research, sales and distribution.
• Should be a proactive self-starter with the ability to work independently. Need strong ability to set priorities, solve problems, and be resourceful under pressure. 
• Experience working with agency/client partners, exhibiting the ability to generate maximum return through effective marketing strategies and direction.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.